I’ve always thought there was something missing from rock festivals. No, plenty of puke, obnoxious teens, and bad radio music. I’m talking about the prayer tent. Gotta get me one of them “I Love Christian Boys” trucker hats too. Why is there no Buddhist rock movement in this country? I remember when Jello Biafra […]

Atlanta’s own metal sweethearts Mastodon have a new video for the “The Wolf Is Loose,” a single from the forthcoming “Blood Mountain.”

I’ll be damned if the first verse of this song at the very least doesn’t channel the Cro-Mags in their prime. This makes me want to slip on the punk rock body armour […]

Move over sex tourism, now we’ve got disaster vacations. Voyeur vultures? Nah. There’s something poetically humbling about disaster. I’m seriously considering the Chernobyl tour.

I’m a firm believer in the very human responsibility of hacking one’s own way out of stupidity. Natural talent is a myth, an excuse of sheer sloth, or a repressive cultural tool to punish under-achievers and create a virtual caste system. That means I also despise the age myth, that we become so naturally incapacitated […]

This weekend, Aug 26-27. Food, Art Markets, Croquet, and best of all, FREE. How can you go wrong with that? Magnapop will be playing at 7:30pm, Saturday.
Saturday, August 26 - Acoustic Stage
12:00 Stil True
1:00 […]

Business 2.0 on the rising ad revenue generated by blogs. Uh, perhaps it’s time to start my own celebrity gossip blog, you know, give the people what they want and all that.

Boing Boing, a four-person operation that bills itself as a directory of wonderful things, is on track to gross an estimated $1 million in […]

Jon tears CNN a new one (ok, all this footage is from CNN domestic, not international.) Good stuff on the ol’ Daily Show last night.

This pretty much sums up the issues with 24×7 news as sensationalism-in-the-name-of-ratings.

Had he chosen Sartre or Heidegger, we know this would have been complete bullshit. Alas, Camus is technically easy enough for an illiterate president to read and completely misunderstand.

After living really close to Turner Field for over a year now, I’ve finally made the walk to a Braves game. Easy 10 minutes with only a few shady corners (the ones closest to my house.) But it got me thinking about sports subsidies, or in plain english, the government redistribution of your money to […]

I need a band name for a new rock project. Contest begins now. Winner will announced on stage by aforementioned rock band, at first gig, most likely at the prestigious Lennys, or The Earl, or similar ATL venue. Winner will be invited backstage to party and do beer bongs with aforementioned rock band, and may […]